Would you have

Would you have let it go this far,
Had it been known from the start…?

Like a fool
It makes you act
Your pride is crushed over
And thrown in the trash
Would you have let it go this far,
Had it been known from the start…?

Every day you console yourself
This is it, it’s going to stop.
Do you hear yourself?
For again I hear you crying out hurt
Would you have let it go this far,
Had it been known from the start…?

Love is a pain flowing though
Cutting your heart.
Do you know where it’s going to stop?

Last time...

As my heart pounds
and
reach the threshold...
I see
the approaching peak
only few miles to go...

I close my eyes
take a deep breath...
and
see your smiling face
calling on to me...

Gathering the last strength
reach to the top...
hoping to see you again
Just before I fall...

feel your arms around
the last time...
Just before I fall...
Open my wings
I fly...
the last time...

Little girl by the signal

Oh gosh! Am late!
And the red lights after red lights!
Frowning heavily,
I wait at the signal

"5 rupees, please take one",
little hand pokes mine.
a small girl, wearing school uniform
lost behind the load of garlands
"just 5 rupees, please do take one",
She pleads…

"Where are your parents?"
"near the roadside"
she points excitedly,
"see, there… "
A smile comes on my face
"do you go to school?"
"Yes :) everyday"
"What about your homework?
When you do it?"
"Sitting by amma,
when the lights are green…"

I take two garlands,
she moves to next vehicle…
green lights flashes
Honks and honks rushes forth
I too move on.

Something makes me
look back at the roadside…
little girl standing by her mother,
a book in her small hands.

Just in 10 rupees,
I bought a wonderful smile.
determination so strong,
Little girl by the signal taught…

Paper

I am your friend as you start with your day
Check the newspaper awaiting at your doorstep today

I am the currency,
that you earn and spend without care.

I am piles and piles of knowledge
that you love and you hate,
But still read it anyways

I am the carefree boat that you floated in the rain…
I am the colorful kite that gave you wings and new friends...
I am a message from loved ones
that brings smiles and tears to your face.

I am plain,
Yet I decorate your life.
I am the art, the music, the dance, the picture…
All starts with me,
still I am naïve.

I am the fan,
when power fails you on a sunny day.
I am hidden at every corner of your archway…

I laugh with you
I rub the tears from your eyes.
I am the power of your emotions.
With me, you have broken rules, boycotted dynasties.
for I am your loud voice…

You burn me for pleasure.
You burn me to die.

Still,
I am with you.
I am your friend.

.SAVE PAPER.

Truth of You and Me

Am sorry for I made you cry
But am not so sorry, for I did it again…
So that’s how it goes…
It is truth of you… and me…

I followed you many times around
I crossed the streets fearing you’ll be gone
Assumed the worst and lashed at you
Don’t you know,
It were my own insecurities…
Am sorry for I made you cry
But am not so sorry, for I did it again…
So that’s how it goes…
It is truth of you… and me…

Indifference was the mask I wore
Subtle killing was the only goal
Flirted around to see the hurt on your face
Don’t you know,
This love was too much for me!
And I made you cry
But am not sorry, for I did it again…
So that’s how it goes…
It is truth of you… and me…

Now that I’m on my own
Admitting to the emptiness you left behind
With all that’s been said and done…
Don’t you know,
It is the end.

Your smell still lingers in the bed…
Oh baby!
What we’ve done…
You make me cry

Little Butterflies

Little Butterflies
so young and tender...
Left alone in the world to wonder..
"You are like me,
and I am like you
But where is my family?"

Little Butterflies
trying to flutter...
The winds are strong
but the wings to delicate
and they shudder...
"Will I get to fly free someday?"

Precious pearls
but sadly fighting alone...
"Will you be the one
to Save my Soul?"

[Few lines dedicated to an orphanage]

Hello!

Passing months, and all the passing days...
Far far away... they all go by...
But, do you have
No time to say “Hello!”?

Riding alone...
Gliding unseen, though the rusty roads...
Blowing winds, beating me...
‘Coz you’re not here to hide behind...
But, do you have
No time to say “Hello!”?

Singing rains, shatters though the glass...
And brings the chill, that flutters the heart...
How far away, your warmth has gone...
But still, do you have
No time to say “Hello!”?

Burning the heat within, silence runs onto the mill...
Lost in work, too far away to watch the behind...
Perturbed, but should we disturb?
Only hopes, will they catch your eye...
And still, do you have
No time to say “Hello!”?

[An attempt at weaving a song]

verse

If only I could write an echo,
asking a shadow to dance...

If only I could share the shade of an old tree,
asking the angels to sing...

and the verse would begin
with a lump in the heart...

tough going

when the going gets tough
and the tough gets going...
just remember
you are not the only one sailing...

life

life's a chance encounter...
the journey of the truth,
rest is of no use...

cry

Underneath the pillow
Lies a heartless story
Only darkness,
as far as the eyes goes
Tormented rains,
beat up the windows
And black clouds,
eat up the only ally

Sometimes such sadness passes us by
And there is no wind for us to dry
And we cry

In the garden
Grows a pair of blue lilies
Sun, too sunny this day,
shines love,
all inside from the marrow
And it leaves some trails
for a beaming landscaper,
And a lullaby...


Sometimes such happiness passes us by
And there is no room for us to hide
And we cry

brave

It's not the one who succeeds every time
is brave...
It is the one
who fails...
but doesn't fails to try again...

shayari - 2

gajab duniya gool yeh kahani bannati hai...
saath hain par ek dusre ki parchayin hain...
ek, din ki roushani meh bhi ghabrata hai...
dusra, andheri raat meh ghulle aam, chain ki need so jatta hain...

for you

few lines from e.e.Cummings, one can't help falling in love with these few words.. expresses what one can't express...

I carry your heart with me...
I carry it in my heart.

I am never without it...
Anywhere I go, you go, my dear...
And whatever is done by only me...
is your doing, my darling.

I fear no fate...
for you are my fate, my sweet.
I want no world, for, beautiful...
you are my world, my true...

Here is the deepest secret no one knows,
Here is the root of the root...
and the bud of the bud...
and the sky of a sky of a tree called life,
which grows higher than the soul can hope,
or the mind can hide...

It is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart...

I carry your heart.
I carry it in my heart.

shayari

after a long time, few lines transpired in hindi...

wafah ki ummed nahi ki humne kabhi...
unhonne toh dagah ka bhi kabhi hak na diya

raah takte rahe hum magar...
unhonne ek nigah ka bhi kabhi hak na diya

royye viraane meh hum bhi kabhi kabhi...
par aansuoun ne bhi girnne ka hak na diya

Dreamer

Born to be a dreamer,
and dreamer thou shall be
wishing for someone,
to show the reality...

Clocked in the dense forest,
and plagued by the sinuous torrents...
thou wait for the real love,
as trees holds the dream-tied gloves...

Born to be a dreamer,
and dreamer thou shall be...
wishing for someone,
to show the reality...

for you lay timeless,
along with the dwarfs...
fast asleep,
in the coffin of glass...

veracitas

veracitas or perfidie,
veiled liaison intervened...
one step here
one step there
vécu vie...
an enamouren fool
beseech mercēs
over fallen moons
veracitas or perfidie,
veiled liaison intervened...

autumn

branches,
stripped clear
leaf by leaf

breezed
by the vile time...

falls...
scintilla, scintilla...
a graceful dance
for the chrome salmon painted grounds...

kisses it, at last!
and
dies a silent death...
its hope stripped
part by part...

still,
lying peacefully...
waiting to be brushed aside
giving hope,
that a new life would start...

till then,
paint a golden picture
my dear leaves!
for sooner,
the virgin drops would fall...

ennoble?

nobility and vogue
care not go in one...
for one brings day
and lesser,
the doom...

behind all flashy smiles
lies calculated sums...

perhaps it might...
but
i am yet to find
a heart
pure as sun...

glass

Watching though the glass...
trying to forget the past...

winters remind me
of your warmth...

rains slaps me...
showing our lost dance

falling leaves
laughs and curses
me to oblivion...

summers reminds
of the long waiting nights...

why isn’t it easy!

looking out of the window
am moon again
remembering you
breaking my heart...